September 02, 2002
A's Win Again:
Down 5-0, after a poor perfromance by Barry Zito, the A's came back to take a 6-5 lead. The Royals tied it a 6, and in the bottom of the 9th, Long tripled to start the inning. I think a triple was generous, since the left fielder had a real hard time picking up the ball. Pena then walks the next two batters intentionally. Hatteberg grounded out into a fielder's choice at the plate, but Tejada singled in the winning run (to listen to the A's announcers, you'd think Tejada was the only AL player deserving of the MVP).
The double IBB was used against me in strat-o-matic once. I was playing my roommate David Aceto at his ballpark, 1979 card set. We were in extra innings, and I had used all my pitchers, so Dave Frost was in to stay and had to bat (we did not use the DH). With two outs, Bill Madlock, my #6 hitter doubled. Aceto then brilliantly walked Munson and Burleson to face Frost. Joaquin Andujar was on the mound. Frost was a 1 hitter in strat-o, meaning the only positive offense on his card was a 2-10 walk. I rolled the dice. A 4-9, which was a walk on Andujar's card. I started jumping up and down yelling, "He walked, he walked!" at which point the card table came flying across the room at me, and Aceto uttered that timeless phrase, "I hate happy people."
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